Funkyterrance wrote:Neoteny wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Neoteny wrote:Might a thread killer have an effect on post frequency? Perhaps a significant drop off from a certain level of activity?
An affect on their frequency or others? Theirs I would assume yes but others I'm unsure. I, for one, just ignore posts of which I don't feel inclined to respond to and continue the conversation where it left off before it was posted, being careful not to repeat anything found in said ignored post's contents. To leave a thread because a post or two left a bad taste in my mouth would be a pretty petty move.
I still have a feeling that this all revolves around people not wanting to hear too strongly a conflicting view to their own so they simply remove themselves from the conversation. Why should here be so much different than in real life?
An effect on others. Would a certain poster, more than others, be measured as reducing the post frequency of others within a thread? If so, this would account for the philosophizing at the end of your post.
So you're reducing this to a matter of "that guy" being in the room? I should think we are all adult enough to get past this if it were the case. Besides, judging by the data this
isn't the case since quite a few of the names in the lower percentile end are somewhat awkward and not necessarily usually welcome to conversations so the whole "idiot walking into the mensa party" theory doesn't quite fit.
"That guy being in the room" was exactly the point Nietzsche wanted to make. I don't know where you've been the last four pages, or how you've been reading and posting in this thread without figuring out that that reason is, originally, the whole objective of the analysis. Haggis modified it a bit, but still. I'm not a fan of Niet's particular suggestion to achieve his goal as I think it might be really muddy and not give anything that significant data-wise, so I was trying to help him out. Anyhow, mine might not be that much better, but it might be easier.
So, in any case, welcome to the thread. I know enough about statistics to know what can and can't be read into them. I'm not reducing anything.